User talk:FabiánHJ

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:33, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Gabriela Mistral

Hi! The best way to go about creating a section on her work and themes would be to find coverage that discusses them. You can use primary sources for this - if Mistral herself said that a common theme in her work or in a specific piece of work was something, you can absolutely add that. You can also use secondary, independent sources that cover her work and discuss the themes. The only thing that you wouldn't be able to do would be to theorize on your own what her themes may have been, such as reading one of her poems and stating that a poem about flowers dealt with life and death or with romance. That would be seen as original research - however if Mistral said it or it was in reliable sources, then it's OK to add. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:38, 15 November 2018 (UTC) Ok that makes sense. I have resources and just wanted to add a section about poetry to an existing wikipedia page.

• A quick note - I saw that you wrote a section on themes, but only use a single source for this. This section should have several sources since it's not really a good idea to focus too heavily on a single source, especially as the link you have only states that Mistral was awarded the prize - it doesn't have the speech itself, so none of the claims can be verified.

You also want to avoid the content coming across as a personal reflection or essay on Mistral, so you need to edit this to remove point of view statements and content that comes across like it was written from the viewpoint of a single person. A good way to do this would be to find the specific points that need to be in the section. Looking at the content, here are the major points:

1. Mistral's poetry contains themes that Hjalmar Gullberg stated were driven by factors such as her father's poetry, the suicide of her first love, war, and the death of her young nephew.
2. Common themes in her poetry include themes of death, desolation, and loss, as well potential hatred of God.
3. Other themes include love and motherhood.

I would instead write this along these lines:

According to Hjalmar Gullberg, Mistral's poetry has been impacted by experiences in her lifetime such as war, her father's poetry, and deaths of those close to her. Common themes in her poetry center on death, desolation, and loss. Her 1922 poetry collection Desolación contained poems that featured themes of despair and loss, which are believed by Gullberg to be related to the deaths of Romelio Ureta and her nephew Yin Yin (Juan Pablo Godoy Miguel Mendoza), both of whom committed suicide. Mistral also wrote on topics such as love and motherhood, which Gullberg stated can be seen in the collection Ternura, where she expressed her feelings of love for the children at her school. In her third large collection, Tala (1938), Mistral includes a mixture of sacred hymn naïve song for children, poems that talk about water, corn, salt and wine.

This is far less than what you'd added, however the issue here is that a lot of this contained words such as "wonderful" that are both subjective to the reader as well as non-neutral in tone, as well as content that could be seen as original research in that they're your own reflections on Mistral. A good example of a themes section is the one located at To_Kill_a_Mockingbird#Themes. While granted this section is huge and the article is about a book and not a person, the language and style there is what you should be generally using. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:48, 20 November 2018 (UTC)